SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 11:31 AM ET (1531 GMT)
SpaceX launched another set of Starlink satellites Wednesday as the company gets close to providing continuous global coverage. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 12:34 pm EDT (1634 GMT) and deployed the 60 Starlink satellites about an hour later. In a talk earlier this week at the LEO Digital Forum, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said the company was a few launches away from providing continuous global coverage with Starlink, but would continue to launch satellites after that to add capacity. The FCC has yet to rule on a license modification that would allow SpaceX to fly more satellites in the 550-kilometer orbit currently used by the constellation. Shotwell added that SpaceX doesn't have a schedule for ending the ongoing beta test of the service as it works to improve the reliability of the network and lower the cost of the consumer terminals.
SpaceX launched another set of Starlink satellites Wednesday as the company gets close to providing continuous global coverage. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 12:34 pm EDT (1634 GMT) and deployed the 60 Starlink satellites about an hour later. In a talk earlier this week at the LEO Digital Forum, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell said the company was a few launches away from providing continuous global coverage with Starlink, but would continue to launch satellites after that to add capacity. The FCC has yet to rule on a license modification that would allow SpaceX to fly more satellites in the 550-kilometer orbit currently used by the constellation. Shotwell added that SpaceX doesn't have a schedule for ending the ongoing beta test of the service as it works to improve the reliability of the network and lower the cost of the consumer terminals.| <<previous article | next article>> |
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